With the basic scenario, I could see both the valid case described below (add the number of days the library is closed to the loan), as well as a simple logic of not making something due on a date that the Library is closed. For example, a 14 day loan with 4 closed service point days, the last of which is the date the item would normally be due. The item is instead assigned a due date of the following day-or 15 days, rather than 18 days.

Is this designed to solve both of these potential scenarios or only the latter? From my perspective, the latter is the more common—never assign a due date on a date when we’re closed.

I think there is another setting for determining when hourly loans are due—either the due time is truncated to the closing time on that date or it is assigned a specific time, such as 30 minutes after opening the next day. I would assume the skip date would come into play in a scenario where the default logic would make a 2 hour loan due 30 minutes the next day, but the next day is a closed day. It would then skip that date and make the item due 30 minutes after opening the first day the service point was open.

Does that make sense?

Best,

David

From: folio-ra@ole-lists.openlibraryfoundation.org [mailto:folio-ra@ole-lists.openlibraryfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Sean Thomas
Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2018 11:49 AM
To: folio-ra@ole-lists.openlibraryfoundation.org
Subject: Skip closed dates in intervening period

Hello again RA SMEs,

If I understand the role of this function, it's to remove from a due date calculation dates for which the library was closed.  So, for a long-term loan with Skip dates=Y (assuming no Fixed Due Date Limits are applied), the system should extend the calculation for due date based on the number of closed days for the service point.  For example:

 - 2 week loan with 4 closed Service Point days would mean that the item should be due in 2 weeks + 4 days, due at the end of the day unless otherwise configured, correct?

Assuming I've got the basics of this right, at what level of specificity is this feature meant to apply - i.e., should it be calculating to the hour/minute for due dates?  For example:

 - 2 hour loan checked out 1 hour before service point closes.  If Skip dates=Y, should the due date/time be 1 hour after the Service Point opens the following morning?

 - 2 hour loan checked out at 13 minutes before Service Point closes.  If Skip dates=Y, should the due date/time be 1hr:47min after the Service Point reopens?

I'm wanting to game out a number of scenarios that exercise the desired Loan Policy fields under different conditions and I'll be sharing those with the group to review.  Understanding the desired specificity of this feature will help to flesh those out.  Hopefully, we can find time in the schedule next week to walk through them and get these in front of the developers for implementation.

Thanks.

Sean

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